Serene 86 year old looking to exchange insightful ideas and remembrances.

Monday, December 10, 2018

An amusing Christmas gift ... 2006

This
is a photo taken in 1936 of me (bottom left) and three of my four
sisters. You can tell that none of us wanted to have our
picture taken and can almost hear the big sighs and read our secret
thoughts … "you
can make us pose but you can't make us smile."
Only our middle sister Nancy, always the rebel of the family, was
brave enough to actually refuse to be part of the photo.

At
Christmas time 2006 my 80 year old sister Mary (top right) used this
picture as her gift. She'd had it framed and it came complete
with a card that read "Merry Christmas, Joy & Peace".
It's evident that old age had not robbed her of a good sense of humor
and it still remains one of my favorite gifts.

I LOVE the picture and have dozens like it of my son. We did indeed get dumped on with the storm, ending up with more than twenty inches of heavy wet stuff. Out of power and Internet service from Saturday evening until last night. Thank goodness we have a large generator. It will be a few more days before we can get out.